Finding Jack Dyer

Famously referred to as Captain Blood, John Raymond “Jack” Dyer played a brutal style of hip and shoulder for VFL team Richmond during the depression and post WW2 era (1931 – 1949).

In one season alone he was lauded as breaking the collarbones of five opponents, but was only ever suspended once during his long career. After retiring from the game Jack Dyer’s continued to entertain the crowds as a media commentator, working on both TV and radio and writing a weekly column for the Melbourne newspaper, Truth.

Tony Hardy is a long term member of the Richmond Football club. He is also an expert on Jack Dyer and has written a book about this inspiring athlete and hard man of a footy era we will never see again.